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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Marion C. Blackwell

(1843 - 1867)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company M, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 28 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was home on furlough to at least February 1863, but was afterward with his Company to the surrender at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

He died about two years after the war, only 23 years old.

References & notes

His service from Graham.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

12/20/1843

Death

08/25/1867; Cobb County, GA; burial in Blackwell family cemetery, Cobb County, GA

Notes

1 Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /InfCoM.html [AotW citation 22000]

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